These protests are endangering both the participants and the general public. These relatively small groups (a few thousand) are gathering to protest various stay-at-home orders and social distancing practices that governors across the country have put in place to save lives and flatten the curve of COVID-19 illness and death. Protesters wanted to end this now and did not practice social distancing, endangering all of us.

You may want to read the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists in this –
https://thebulletin.org/2020/04/the-world-has-seen-protests-against-epidemic-lockdowns-before-these-are-different/